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95: The Extremism Edition

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With Jeremy Corbyn still failing to act on Labour’s anti-semitism crisis, now Boris Johnson creates his own chaos for the Conservatives. But did the former Foreign Secretary know what he was doing when he made his incendiary remarks about women who wear the burka?We assess how Britain’s two main parties have ended up struggling to contain extremist rhetoric, and ask what it suggests about our national debate.How did we end up in a world where British politicians are defending American conspiracy nut Alex Jones, and people like Steve Bannon are invited onto breakfast TV.Plus we lighten the mood by learning about the space nation of Asgardia, whose political leader will be familiar to anyone who remembers long-lost Liberal Democrat MPs from mid-Wales with an asteroid fixation.Read more »

With Jeremy Corbyn still failing to act on Labour’s anti-semitism crisis, now Boris Johnson creates his own chaos for the Conservatives. But did the former Foreign Secretary know what he was doing when he made his incendiary remarks about women who wear the burka?We assess how Britain’s two main parties have ended up struggling to contain extremist rhetoric, and ask what it suggests about our national debate.How did we end up in a world where British politicians are defending American conspiracy nut Alex Jones, and people like Steve Bannon are invited onto breakfast TV.Plus we lighten the mood by learning about the space nation of Asgardia, whose political leader will be familiar to anyone who remembers long-lost Liberal Democrat MPs from mid-Wales with an asteroid fixation.Read Less